Seating.



E. G. BUDD.

, SEATING.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1908.

1,067,238, Patented July 15, 1913.

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EDWARD Gr. BUDD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE AS- SIGNMENTS, T0 HALE AND KILIBURN COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

SEATING.

Application filed. July 24, 1908.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD G. BUDD, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seating, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to seating and re fers particularly to the construction of the aisle end of a seat of the type commonly employed in railway cars.

The invention is directed to the provision of an improved construction of the aisle end of a car seat including the seat-end and arm-rest such that the construction is sin'iplitied, the number of parts employed reduced and the cost of production decreased.

In aisle-ends for car seats, it has been common heretofore to employ a metallic plate affixed to the ends of the connecting rails of the seat and having thereon a rail for supporting and guiding the movable back-supporting arm and a bearing for the rod by which the arms at opposite ends of the seat are caused to move synchronously. In affixing these parts to the plate bolts have been employed extending through the plate and the plate has been shaped to provide raised pads so that the heads of these bolts will not extend beyond the plane of the outer surface of the plate. Because of the presence of the bolt-heads on the outer side of the plate and the irregularities in the plate due to the provision of the raised pads, it has been considered necessary heretofore to provide a cover for the plate which would serve to conceal the bolt-heads and irregularities and which might be pressed to any desired configuration so as to give an attractive appearance to the seat-end. In accordance with mv invention the provision of such a cover is rendered unnecessary without detracting in any way from the appearance of the completed seat-end; this is accomplished by uniting the plate and the parts connected thereto in such a manner that the securing means does not show on the outer side of the plate and the plate itself, instead of a cover therefor, may be pressed into form to embody an attractive design.

I have illustrated the preferred embodi ment of my invention in the accompanying drawings in which Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15, 1913.

Serial No. 445,089.

Figure 1 is an elevation. of the inner side of a seat-end, Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 33 of Fig. 1, Fig. at is a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a modification and Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 1 indicates a seat-end formed of a single piece of sheetmetal cut to the desired shape and pressed into form, so as to provide a flange 2 extending inwardly of the seat-end around the edges of the plate and to form in the plate beads 3 or other devices which will give to the seat-end an attractive appearance. An arc-shaped rail 4 of T-section is secured to the inner side of plate 1 as shown in Figs. 1 and 9. by brazing together or otherwise uniting one surface of the rail and the inner surface of the plate 1. Below rail 4 at the center of the seat-end a bearing 5 is provided for a rocking-rod by which the movement of the back-sup )orting arms at opposite ends of the seat is synchronized. This bearing is secured in an annularboss G the cross-sectional shape of which is shown in Fig. 3. Boss 6 is'so formed that the material at the edge of the opening therein is displaced from the material at the outer edge thereof as shown. The end of the bearing 5 is inserted through the opening in boss 6 and upset so as to rivet the bearing to the boss and the boss is then secured to the plate 1 by welding the material at the outer edge thereof to the inner side of plate 1. In this way it will be seen that both the arc shaped rail 4t for supporting the back-supporting arm and the bearing 5 for the connecting rod are secured to the inner side of plate 1 without requiring any change whatever in the shape of plate 1 and without the use of securing means which show 011 the outer side of plate 1.

The plate 1 constituting the seat-end is secured to the ends of connecting rails which are supported upon pedestals or upon one pedestal and the side wall of the car. For securing the plate to the ends of these con necting rails the following devices are employed: Two sheet-metal pieces 7 are secured to the plate 1, one on either side of the bearing Each of the sheet-metal pieces 7 has a body portion, flanges at the lateral edges thereof turned at a right angle to this body portion and flanges 8 at the edges of these flanges, the flanges 8 lying in a plane parallel to the plane of the body portion of the piece. These flanges 8 are welded to the inner surface of the plate 1 so as to securely unite the pieces 7 to the plate. An opening for a bolt is provided in the body portion of each piece 7, as indicated at 9, and above this opening a square opening 10 is pro vided through which a nut may be inserted. In order to hold this nut in position while the parts are being assembled, a nut-pocket is provided by securing to the inner side of the piece '7 a sheet-metal piece 11 pressed to the shape shown in Fig. 3 so as to provide flanges which may be brazed or riveted to the inner. surface of piece 7 and a body portion displaced from the body portion of piece 7 by such a distance as to permit a nut to drop from the hole 10 between the parts 7 and 11 into position back of the opening 9. On the bottom edge of the piece 11 a projection 12 is provided turned inwardly so as to support this nut in the proper position for coaction with the bolt.

At the right of Fig. 3 is shown one of the connecting rails 13 by which the seat-end 1 is supported. The end of this rail is riveted to a bearing piece 14 provided at its end with a vertically disposed wall adapted to lie alongside the piece 7. This wall of the bearing piece is provided with an opening and the bolt for securing the plate 1 to the rail 13 is adapted to extend through this opening and the opening 9 in the piece 7.

In assembling the parts the nuts 15 are passed through the openings 10 and dropped into position back of the openings 9 where they are supported by the projections 12. The bolts 16 are then inserted through the openings in bearing pieces 14 and'the openings 9 so as to coact with the nuts 15 and then by tightening up these bolts the seat-end is rigidly secured to the bearing pieces 14: and the rails 13. It will be seen that in this way the seat-end is secured in position without passing the bolts for this purpose through the plate which constitutes the seat-end and that this may be done irrespective of the configuration to which the plate is pressed in providing an attractive design therefor. The employment of a cover for the plate 1 is therefore un necessary and any design desired for the seat-end may be formed thereon such for instance as that illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

In Figs. 4 and 5, I have illustrated a modification of the construction above described in which the plate 17 constituting the seatend is not extended upwardly to carry an arm-rest but instead is of such size that its upper edge lies in substantially the same plane as the upper surface of the cushion of the seat. In these figures, the plate 17 is shown as having a plain front but it will be understood that the construction of the seat-end is such that in this case, as well as in the construction illustrated in Fig. 1, the plate mav be pressed to any desired configuration.

lVhen' a seat-end of the type illustrated in Fig. 1 is employed it is common to provide an arm-rest upon the upper edge of the plate 1. The construction of armrest which I prefer to employ is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. In these figures I have shown an arm-rest 18 consisting of a strip of U- shaped cross-section curved in the direction of its length to the shape desired for the upper surface of the armrest. This strip may be of metal or of some non-metallic material such as hard fiber. The arm-rest 18 is mounted upon the upper edge of the seat-end with the bottom of the U upward. For this purpose screws 19 may be employed extending upwardly through openings in the flange 2 at the top edge of the plate 1 and into threaded openings in bosses 20 secured to the under side of or formed integral with the arm-rest 18.

.Having described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In seating, the combination of a seat end consisting of a sheet-metal plate, a connecting rail, a metallic piece secured to the inner side of said plate and having an open ing therein, means for securing the end of said rail to said piece including a bolt passing through said opening and a nut on said bolt, and a piece mounted between said piece and said plate for holding said nut in position while assembling the parts, substantially as set forth.

2. In a seat, the combination of a seat-end consisting of a sheet-metal plate, a connecting rail, a sheet-metal piece having edge portions at opposite sides thereof secured to the inner side of said plate, and a bodyportion displaced from said plate and provided with an opening, a member secured to the end of the connecting rail and having an integral wall disposed transverse to the length of the rail anchlying against the body-portion of said piece, a bolt passing through an opening in said transverse wall and the opening in the body-portion of the said piece and a nut engaging the end of the bolt lying between said piece and said plate, substantially as set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 21st day of July, 1908.

EDXVARD G. BUDD.

lVitnesses R. M. F REES, WALTER M. Sworn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patent-s.-

Washington, D. G. 

